All Chapters of Puck Me, One More Time: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Ken's POV"It's actually none of your business."Liam said politely or let's say, with the tone of someone trying to be polite even though there was absolutely nothing polite about those words when you really listened to them. It was the kind of response that hit harder because it was calm. No shouting, no cracking voice, just five words delivered straight and clean like he had been saving them specifically for Eric and had been waiting for exactly the right moment to use them.I uncrossed my arms and then crossed them again without really thinking about it. Because honestly? That reply was exactly what Eric deserved and then some. Something shifted inside my chest before I even fully processed what I was feeling and I had to remind myself to keep my face straight because the last thing I needed right now was for anyone at this table to notice that I was enjoying Liam's response more than I was supposed to.But it actually seemed like pouring fuel onto something that was already burni

Liam's POV"Tell me if it hurts." I said quietly, keeping my eyes on the wound.I had grabbed the first aid box from the clinic shelf and set it open on the bed beside Ken. I used the antiseptic solution, cotton wool, then a small pair of tweezers to clear the edges if I needed them and a proper wound dressing to finish it off. The puncture was not as deep as the blood had made it look out there in the cafeteria, but it was real enough and it needed to be cleaned properly before anything else.I soaked a fresh piece of cotton wool with the antiseptic and pressed it carefully against the wound, working in slow, deliberate circles from the outside edge inward the way you were supposed to… not jabbing at it but just easing the solution in and lifting the cotton away clean before going back in again. The area around the entry point was already starting to bruise slightly under the skin and I could see where the fork had gone in at the joint between his shoulder and his upper arm, close to

Steph's POVI was not going to pretend that tonight was just another event.I had put in the work as I ‘dressed to kill’ in a short black fitted dress that hit just above the knee, heels that added three inches and made every step count, hair down and styled the way I knew looked best under event lighting. It was a simple but deliberate outfit that did not need to announce itself because it did the talking on its own.Aria and Tacha were beside me, both dressed well enough, though neither of them had put in the level of thought I had. Besides, tonight was not about them but about me…the queen bee.I was not going to pretend either that I had not been ‘wishful’ thinking about the moment Ken would walk in and his eyes would land on me first. That was the whole point. That had been the whole point since I decided what I was wearing three days ago. Ken was coming tonight and I had made sure of that personally as I wanted the first thing he saw when he arrived to be worth remembering."Wha

Liam's POVJust then Aria and Tacha stepped in from behind Steph, moving into the remaining space in the corridor until every direction felt sealed off. There were five of them in total. The wall they formed without even trying made the size of the corridor feel like it had shrunk by half.There was not a single ounce of doubt left about what this was because that just played out, I was beginning to place the dots.I looked straight up at Steph. "What do you want from me?"She had both hands placed on her waist, weight shifted to one side, chin slightly lifted. It was just the full picture of someone who had rehearsed this moment in her head more than once and was now watching it play out exactly the way she planned. Like having someone pinned to their knees in a dim corridor on a late Friday evening was just standard behaviour and she genuinely could not understand why anyone would have an issue with it."I just don't understand why the school puts you to tutor Ken." Her voice was sw

Liam's POVBefore I could even process what was happening, they went for my jacket first… pulling it off my shoulders while Eric and Josh made sure I stayed pinned flat against the floor. The corridor tiles were cold against my knees and every time I tried to shift my weight even slightly, the grip on both arms tightened like a warning.I felt so helpless and hopeless and all I could do was to go on to plead. "Stop, stop, stop…" But I already knew that the moment the words left my mouth they just dissolved into the air like they had never existed. Nobody in this corridor was listening to me and nobody was going to because I doubt if anyone could actually hear me from here with regards to how enclosed this place was."We will put your nudes online." Steph held her phone up, screen already glowing and angled directly at my face. "Better still, a livestream." She said it the way someone announces exciting plans in that easy, bright and genuinely looking forward to it. Eric kept me flat w